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Clinically significant non-major depression in a community-dwelling elderly population: epidemiological findings
- Authors:
- CHEN Cheng-Sheng, CHONG Mian-Yoon, TSANG Hin-Yeung
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22(6), June 2007, pp.557-562.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim of this study was to investigate the 1-month prevalence, symptom profiles and demographic correlates in late-life clinically significant non-major depression (CSNMD) among a community-dwelling elderly population. One thousand five hundred subjects aged 65 years and older, who were randomly selected from three communities in Taiwan, received comprehensive psychiatric assessment by trained psychiatrists. Two categorical diagnoses of depressive disorder, including major depression and CSNMD, were made. The 1-month prevalence was calculated. Frequencies of depressive symptoms across CSNMD and major depression were compared. The risks of CSNMD based on demographic characteristics were estimated using multinominal logistic regression. The 1-month prevalence of CSNMD among the community-dwelling elderly was 8.8%. Symptoms of diminished interest, appetite changes, sleep disturbance, worthlessness or inappropriate guilt, trouble in concentrating or indecisiveness, and suicidal thoughts or acts were less frequent in CSNMD than in major depression, but symptoms of depressed mood, psychomotor changes, and fatigue or loss of energy were as frequent in both categories of illness. CSNMD shares similar demographic risks, such as living in an urban area, female gender and low educational status, with major depression. CSNMD is common among community-dwelling elders in Taiwan, and with its identical demographic characteristics, but qualitatively different presentation, the authors suggest CSNMD may be considered part of a spectrum of severe late life depressions with a distinct manifestation. Major depression and CSNMD may share common demographic characteristics with different manifestation. It is concluded that late-life depression is a dimensional disease.
Prognostic factors of disability of older people: a systematic review
- Authors:
- TAS Umit, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of General Practice, 57(537), April 2007, pp.319-323.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of General Practitioners
This study aims to review and summarise the evidence on the influence of sociodemographic, lifestyle, and (bio)medical variables on the course of prevalent disability and transition rates to different outcome categories in community-dwelling older people. Articles were identified through searches of PubMed, EMBASE, and PsycINFO databases and reference lists of relevant articles. Prospective population studies that assessed disability at baseline and reported on associations between potential prognostic variables and disability were included. Methodological quality of studies was assessed by standardised criteria, after which relevant data were extracted. A synthesis of the available evidence was carried out. Nine cohort studies reported transition rates and eight cohort studies presented multivariate analyses on prognostic factors. There was some heterogeneity among studies in definition and assessment of disability. There is moderate to strong evidence that higher age, cognitive impairment, vision impairment, and poor self-rated health are prognostic factors of disability. Prognostic factors, partly modifiable, are identified that should be taken into account in targeting treatment and care for older people with disabilities. Further conceptual and methodological standardisation is required in order to enable a meta-analysis and obtain higher levels of evidence.
Socio-demographic and other characteristics in persons 50 years and older with HIV/AIDS in five countries
- Authors:
- NOKES Kathleen M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Global Ageing, 4(2), August 2006, pp.5-13.
This article describes socio-demographic and HIV-related characteristics of people aged 50 and older living with HIV/AIDS in Columbia, Norway, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, and the United States. The article is based on findings from a small cross-national study where participants completed an extensive socio-demographic survey. The sample consisted of 175 people from the United States, 10 from Puerto Rico, 17 from Taiwan, 19 from Norway and 9 from Colombia.
Developing a profile of older carers
- Author:
- MILNE Alisoun
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 12(2), July 2002, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Provides an overview of recent research which aimed to development of a 'profile' of older carers. The review increases understanding of who cares in later life and offers a detailed 'profile' of older carers in the UK.
Ageing in Brazil
- Author:
- RAMOS Luiz R.
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 25(4), Spring 2000, pp.58-64.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
Brazil is experiencing a rapid and intense demographic transition. The industrialisation that started in the 1940's brought on fast urbanisation. The country is characterised by considerable socioeconomic inequalities and significant regional variations in the demographics of ageing. The pre-eminent role of the family as caregiver is in jeopardy even as more people are living to older ages seeking family care. Health and social services are grossly inadequate. The Ministry of Health launched the first National Health Policy for the elderly with functional capacity as a keyword. Manpower training in the area of gerontology is very little. All these necessitate an urgent focus on the needs of the fast growing elderly population.
Against modernism
- Author:
- WILSON Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 6(4), December 1996, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Modernity can be defined as a way of organising knowledge which treats rationality and scientific method as the ultimate authorities. Demography and economics are part of modernity. However, the knowledge they offer about ageing is usually presented in simplistic and inaccurate forms. In the light of this the author argues against a modernist approach.
Visibly older
- Author:
- WEBB Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 16.1.92, 1992, p.21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
China has long followed the Confucian concept of filial duty and of veneration of elders, but with the demographic and cultural changes now taking place the elderly may soon face a third age which brings poverty and loneliness.
Support groups for older people: is homogeneity or heterogeneity the answer?
- Authors:
- RICE Susan, GOODMAN Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Groupwork, 5(2), 1992, pp.65-77.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Focuses on the types of homogeneity and heterogeneity that are most effective in groupwork with older people. Group members' needs are considered in relationship to their self, place in time, place in society, and place in a given family situation. The discussion analyses these factors, and gives recommendations for optimal composition in each case, weighing demographic factors of gender and race as well as emotional factors of type of concern and coping abilities.
Returns to work after retirement: a prospective study of unretirement in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- PLATTS Loretta G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 39(3), 2019, pp.439-464.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Despite the complexity of the retirement process, most research treats it as an abrupt and one-way transition. The authors' study takes a different approach by examining retirement reversals (unretirement) and their predictors. Using the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008), and following participants into Understanding Society (2010–2015), they undertake a survival analysis to investigate retirement reversals among Britons aged 50–69 years who were born in 1920–1959 (N = 2,046). Unretirement was defined as: (a) reporting being retired and subsequently recommencing paid employment, or (b) beginning full-time work following partial retirement (the latter defined here as reporting being retired and working fewer than 30 hours per week). A cumulative proportion of around 25 per cent of participants experienced a retirement reversal after reporting being retired; about half of these reversals occurred within the first five years of retirement. Unretirement was more common for participants who were male, more educated, in better health, owned a house with a mortgage (compared to owning it outright) and whose partner was in paid work. However, unretirement rates were not higher for participants in greater financial need, whether measured as subjective assessment of finances or household income quintiles. These results suggest that unretirement is a strategy more often used by those who are already advantaged and that it has the potential to exacerbate income inequalities in later life. (Edited publisher abstract)
Portraying ageing: its contradictions and paradoxes
- Author:
- SEGAL Lynne
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 19(1), 2015, pp.3-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the stigma surrounding old age, which in many ways has increased rather than decreased with the ageing of the population. Design/methodology/approach: The approach of this paper is to introduce the reader to recent writing and research surrounding talk of a "demographic time bomb", with the ageing of populations world wide. It also looks back on the work on "ageing studies" over the last two decades, revealing the prevailing disavowals of old age among the old themselves, as well as the contrasting gendered dynamics of the ways in which we are, as Margaret Gullette writes, "aged by culture". Findings: The author introduces the conceptual notion of "temporal vertigo" to the complicated effects of the multiplicity of continuities and discontinuities older people experience when reflecting upon who they are over a lifetime. Ageing is of interest for those who have always been sceptical about any notion of the "true self", allowing us to puzzle over how the account the old give of themselves will rely upon their ability to incorporate differing versions of the self, woven into the volatilities of memory and fantasy. Originality/value: The paper's exploration of the radical ambiguities in the representation and discussions surrounding old age in these times. (Publisher abstract)